Jean Monnet/ECSA Conference 2014

The future of EU studies

Brussels, 1 & 2 October






Programme
Wednesday 1 October
13:30 14:30 Registration of participants

14:30 16:00 Welcome and Opening Session
Moderator: Xavier Prats Monn, European Commission,
Director-General, DG Education & Culture

Welcome:
Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Training,
Multilingualism and Youth

Opening speech:
Jos Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

Keynote speeches:
Professor Joseph Weiler, President, European University
Institute
Professor Jrg Monar, Rector, College of Europe

Questions and Answers

16:00 16:30 Coffee

16:30 17:30 The Jean Monnet Community: a think-tank on EU issues:
1. A synthesis of feedback from Jean Monnet Professors:
the future of the EU, the Eurozone and how to recover from the
economic and financial crisis.
Professor Fausto de Quadros, University of Lisbon - Faculty of Law

2. Student views on EU studies

17:30 19:00
Networking corners,
Jean Monnet Helpdesk
ECSA meeting

19:30

Dinner
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Thursday 2 October

09:30 12:30
(incl. coffee break)
Working group sessions

WG 1:

Towards a re-definition of EU studies?


WG 2:

EU studies: feeding results in to policy-making


WG 3:

EU studies as an instrument for better governance


WG 4:

The European Union in the world: the role of EU
studies

12:30 14:00

Lunch

14:00 15:00

Working group sessions continue
WG 1: Round-up

WG 2: Round-up
WG 3: Round-up
WG 4: Round-up

15:00 15:30

Coffee
15:30 17:00

Closing session
Moderator: Jordi Curell Gotor, European Commission,
Director, DG Education & Culture
Rapporteurs: Feedback from working groups
Questions & Answers

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Brussels 1 & 2 October
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Working Groups

WG 1: Towards a re-definition of EU studies?

This WG will consider the relevance and appropriateness of European studies. Using a
number of examples, it will assess the impact and added value, both of traditional
European integration studies, and of the introduction of a "European dimension" to other
areas of study, and consider how these could be improved.
Moderator: Bernd WCHTER , Academic Cooperation Association
Enrique BANUS President, ECSA World
Alberto ALEMANNO Jean Monnet Professor, HEC, Paris, France
Eleonora WKTARE President, Association des Anciens, College of
Europe
Jean-Philippe RAGEADE Academy of European Law, Trier
Julie LEPRETRE Ecole Normale d'Administration, Brussels


WG 2: EU studies: feeding results in to policy-making
WG2 will discuss what kind of input European studies could provide to policy
development, and the best form in which this research could be planned and organised
for developing, shaping and making policy on European subject matters in the different
fora concerned.
Moderator: Simon TAYLOR, European Voice
Natasa BESIREVIC University of Zagreb, Croatia
Meltem MFTLER-BA Jean Monnet Chair, Sabanci University, Istanbul,
Turkey
Daniel GROS Director, Centre for European Policy Studies,
Brussels
Udo BULLMANN Member of the European Parliament

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WG3: EU studies as an instrument for better governance

This WG aims to define the needs of the different stakeholders who define or are involved
in governance questions (decision-makers, practitioners, economic players and citizens)
and how they can best be met. It will discuss how an exchange of experience and best
practise can be organised at European level and synergies can be created with a view to
creating momentum and a coordinated dynamic in this area. Central to this exchange will
be the sharing of new knowledge and tailor-made training.
Moderator: Colin STEVENS, eureporter
Leonce BEKEMANS Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, University of
Padua
Lehte ROOTS Talinn Law School, Estonia
Eva HEIDBREDER Heinrich Heine University, Dsseldorf
Mario DI CIOMMO Advisor, Unicredit - Researcher at ASTRID Foundation
Marga PRHL European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht

WG 4: The European Union in the world: the role of EU studies

WG4 looks at the reasons for growing interest in EU studies worldwide. Do EU studies
meet the needs of practitioners and policy-makers outside Europe? How can we improve
the effect they have? To what extent can Europe learn from the way it is perceived from
the outside? Will a better understanding of Europe among partner countries enhance the
EU's external policy?
Moderator: Ard JONGSMA, University World News
Mark ENTIN Jean Monnet Professor, Director, European Studies
Institute, MGIMO-University, Moscow
Cristina SILVA President, ECSA Chile, Vice-Director CELARE,
Santiago
Richard LEWIS Institute for European Studies, Brussels
Yan ZHANG Director, Asia Europe Foundation, Singapore